Inspecting a boat ramp at the Ocklawaha River’s Rodman Reservoir are Jennifer Carr, president of the Florida Defenders of the Environment, and her daughter, Carmen, and the group’s executive director Jim Gross. Rodman Reservoir is plagued by a chronic growth of muck and floating weeds, as seen here at the boat ramp. Weeds have engulfed the ramp and dock.
A legacy of the hasty construction of the dam and reservoir in the 1960s is that it left many trees in the reservoir s boundary.
Part 3 of Special Series
Cannon Springs has spent a half-century entombed by a government blunder of a dam and reservoir on the Ocklawaha River. Every several years, authorities must dump the artificial lake to flush out a nonstop growth of muck and weeds.
Weeds block free flow of Ocklawaha River from Silver Springs to St. Johns River
Part III of the Orlando Sentinel series examines how human error helped choke this North Florida river.
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Inspecting a boat ramp at the Ocklawaha Riverâs Rodman Reservoir are Jennifer Carr, president of the Florida Defenders of the Environment, and her daughter, Carmen, and the groupâs executive director Jim Gross. Rodman Reservoir is plagued by a chronic growth of muck and floating weeds, as seen here at the boat ramp. Weeds have engulfed the ramp and dock. [Kevin Spear | Orlando Sentinel.] [ Orlando Sentinel ]
By Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel
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